为什么使用Dataflow写入Bigquery非常慢？

Question

我可以以大约每秒10,000次插入的速度将插入直接流式传输到BigQuery，但是当我试图使用Dataflow插入时，'tobqrow'步骤（如下所示）非常慢。每10分钟只有50排，这是4名工人。知道为什么吗？以下是相关代码：

PCollection<Status> statuses = p
        .apply("GetTweets", PubsubIO.readStrings().fromTopic(topic))
        .apply("ExtractData", ParDo.of(new DoFn<String, Status>() {
    @ProcessElement
    public void processElement(DoFn<String, Status>.ProcessContext c) throws Exception {
            String rowJson = c.element();

            try {
                TweetsWriter.LOGGER.debug("ROWJSON = " + rowJson);
                Status status = TwitterObjectFactory.createStatus(rowJson);
                if (status == null) {
                    TweetsWriter.LOGGER.error("Status is null");
                } else {
                    TweetsWriter.LOGGER.debug("Status value: " + status.getText());
                }
                c.output(status);
                TweetsWriter.LOGGER.debug("Status: " + status.getId());
            } catch (Exception var4) {
                TweetsWriter.LOGGER.error("Status creation from JSON failed: " + var4.getMessage());
            }

    }
}));

statuses
        .apply("ToBQRow", ParDo.of(new DoFn<Status, TableRow>() {
            @ProcessElement
            public void processElement(ProcessContext c) throws Exception {
                TableRow row = new TableRow();
                Status status = c.element();
                row.set("Id", status.getId());
                row.set("Text", status.getText());
                row.set("RetweetCount", status.getRetweetCount());
                row.set("FavoriteCount", status.getFavoriteCount());
                row.set("Language", status.getLang());
                row.set("ReceivedAt", (Object)null);
                row.set("UserId", status.getUser().getId());
                row.set("CountryCode", status.getPlace().getCountryCode());
                row.set("Country", status.getPlace().getCountry());
                c.output(row);
        }
    }))
        .apply("WriteTableRows", BigQueryIO.writeTableRows().to(tweetsTable)
                .withSchema(schema)
                .withMethod(Method.STREAMING_INSERTS)
                .withWriteDisposition(WriteDisposition.WRITE_APPEND)
                .withCreateDisposition(CreateDisposition.CREATE_IF_NEEDED));

p.run();

Answer 1

原来Dataflow下的Bigquery并不慢。问题是，'status.getPlace().getCountryCode()'返回NULL，所以它抛出的NullPointerException，我在日志中看不到！显然，数据流日志记录需要改进。它现在运行得很好。只要消息进入主题，几乎立刻就会被写入BigQuery！